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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

LE\VIS S. CHICHES'IER, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

SAD-IRON.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,863, dated September 4, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS S. OI-IICHESTER, of the city, county, andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSad or Smoothing Irons, the invention being also Applicable to a TailorsGoose; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description of the same, reference being had to the annexeddrawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1, is aside View of my invention. Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section of thesame taken in the line ac, m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3, a view of the bottom orface of the iron of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention I will proceed to describe it.

A represents the body or main portion of a smoothing iron which may beof the usual form so far as its sides and upper portions are concerned.The face of the iron however is quite different for instead of being aplane surface as hitherto it has a groove a, made all around it near itsedge as shown clearly in Fig. 1. This groove (0, has rounded edges atboth sides as shown at 1, 1, in Fig. 2, while the bottom of the groovemay be formed of a gradual curve 2.

The edge 3, of the face of the iron is angular precisely the same asthat of an ordinary iron, and the portion of the face designated by 4which is bounded by the groove a may be a trifle lower than the edge 3.This is not strictly necessary but I consider it preferable. By havingthe face of the iron thus arranged the fabric is subjected to threedifferent actions in the process of ironing; to wit, first, thatproduced by the angular edge 3, which is common to both my invention andthe old irons, and which is used for taking out the small folds in thefabric; second, that produced by the flat or smooth surface 4: boundedby the grooove a, and, third, that produced by the rounded surfaces 1,at the edges of the groove a.

The rounded surfaces 1, facilitate the rubbing or pressing operation asthe iron is moved over the fabric, the face of the iron slides moreeasily over the surface of the fabric considerably reducing the laborwhile at the same time the iron is rendered more eflicient in itsoperation.

The handle B of the iron is composed of a wrought iron rod Z), which isbent in spiral form as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 2. The rod 6, may bequite small in diameter for the spiral twist forms a handle ofsufficient thickness to be conveniently grasped by the hand, at the sametime it will be seen that it quickly cools as there is not a large massof metal to retain the heat and a free circulation of air is allowed allaround the rod Z). The rod may be bent by properly heating the same andwinding it around a mandrel.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent as an improved article of manufacture A smoothing ironhaving a hollow spiral self ventilating handle, and the edges of itsrubbing surface provided with a groove, and otherwise constructed asherein shown and described.

LEW IS S. GHICHESTER.

Witnesses:

B. GIROUXE, M. M. LIVINGSTON.

